Religious institutions and organizations

We humans are capable of great relationships.

In an expressivist culture, effective engagement must acknowledge teenagers' freedom to choose their own spiritual path.

The discussion guide for the novel, Wonder Clearing, comes at a critical moment for churches and nations.

This book provides an exegetical-theological-rhetorical paradigm, "e;the Christ-oriented approach"e; (Lk 24:27, 44), that facilitates accuracy, effectiveness, and practicality in preaching the New Testament use of the Old.

You are There: Restoring Churches, People, and Places is a pastoral conversation about creation care.

Pastoral theologians from Congo, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address, in this book, the issues of leadership, Ubuntu (community), gender-based violence, political violence, healing, and deliverance faced by pastors and ministers in African contexts today.

Struck from Behind is a memoir--but not the usual narrative of events.

Making the case for the relevance of pastoral care today, this book explores the role of pastoral care through the prism of music.

Conventional coping strategies can be pushed to their limits when people find themselves in situations of suffering, illness, and dying.

In a culture marked by what many call "e;attention-deficit disorder,"e; congregations and their leaders are subject to distractions that detract from their mission and lead them in directions that have little to do with their reason for existence.

Four individuals join a prairie religious community for a year in the mid-twentieth century.

Religious faith is a powerful source of comfort and support for individuals and families facing dementia.

Contemplative practices are increasingly used with children across nurseries and schools and are recognised as ways of improving wellbeing.

Outcome Oriented Chaplaincy (OOC) is a method of chaplaincy care that emphasizes achieving, describing, measuring, and improving the outcomes that result from a chaplain's work, alongside the parallel framework of evidence-based healthcare.

The Leadership of Muhammad is a very personal study of the life-story and leadership skills of the Prophet.

Have You Ever Met a Great Leader?

Good people of privilege are increasingly aware of racial injustice but unsure what to do about it and afraid to venture into challenging dialogues and spaces.

In Clergy Burnout: Surviving in Turbulent Times, Revised and Expanded, Fred Lehr explores the nature and practice of clergy codependence.

In this third of three volumes addressing Luther's outlaw God, Steven D.

Stuck is a guide for understanding how and why a traditional approach to ministry does not align with the modern realities facing pastors, congregations, and seminaries.

In Managing Congregations in a Virtual Age, John W.

"e;The more I read the Bible, the more evident it becomes that everything I have ever taught or written about effective leadership over the past 25 years, Jesus did to perfection.

Words bombard us every day.

Postmodernism.

The Reformation-era writings that make up the Lutheran Confessions remain lively resources for Christian ministry and mission today.

Discovering how to live with dementia"e;I'm a stranger in a strange land,"e; sighed the dignified gentleman Janet L.

Accessible, challenging, funny, and one of the best reads on how to love others in any situation.

The Preached God speaks directly to preachers, calling them to deliver the truths of forgiveness, life, and salvation through both word and sacrament to all who listen.

Like many Americans, Paul Wallace grew up as a church-going Christian.

In this "e;blueprint for survival,"e; Christian sociologist George Barna evaluates the moral and spiritual decline of society and the corresponding stagnation within the Church.

The business of birth control is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the pill.

In Exploring the Bible, preseminarians and other students about to begin training in ministry join scholars Eric D.

The new edition of Mark Lewis Taylors award-winning The Executed God is both a searing indictment of the structures of Lockdown America and a visionary statement of hope.

Love in a Time of Climate Change challenges readers to develop a loving response to climate change, which disproportionately harms the poor, threatens future generations, and damages God's creation.

Everyone is paying attention to Pope Francis, and that includes the most unlikely of admirers: a female Baptist pastor.

How growing in self-awareness deepens relationshipsFrom their years of counseling individuals, couples, and families, George Faller and Heather Wright show how to repair conflict, move from disconnection to reconnection, and discover God's movement in our life and relationships.

Brian Bantum says that race is not merely an intellectual category or a biological fact.

Companionship and strategies for job seekersMillions of people become unemployed every year, yet when job loss happens to us, we typically feel completely alone and often lost, ashamed, and afraid.

This book presents the theological contributions of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC), a transnational body comprising fifteen Asian Catholic bishops' conferences as full members and ten associate members.

Love has the power to transform usIn the words of Mother Teresa, "e;We have forgotten that we belong to each other.

This book examines the history of monastic exemption in France.

The real question for homiletics in our increasingly postmodern, post-Christian contexts is not how we are going to prevent preaching from dying, but how we are going to help it die a good death.

Sixteen church historians here examine Martin Luther in an uncommon waynot as Reformer or theologian but as pastor.

Pundits regularly declare that Christianity is dying.

Winner of a third-place award for popular presentation of the faith by the Catholic Media Association.

There is a hunger in the modern world for spirituality.

Jewish tradition is rich in stories, many of which center around the lives and work of the great chasidic rabbis, known as rebbes.

The diary of a man trying to live within his religious faith while dealing with the harsh realities of urban America.

Long before he left the television news industry, Mark Kelley was concerned about the trends he saw developing in the business.

In this thoughtful and timely book, Bishop Alexander explores his journey through the theological, scriptural, and pastoral aspects of the questions surrounding homosexuality and the Christian faith.